Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kamikaze Navy. Almost simultaneously guns roared out from the U.S. ships anchored off the island. Torpedo-nosed Jap suicide boats were attacking in force. Blinding flashes filled the night as the little boats were hit and exploded. Fifteen of them were destroyed; one got through and damaged a ship...
Last week's drizzle wiped a baseball doubleheader off the slate Saturday, when a Varsity game with the Melville Motor Torpedo Boat School and a B team encounter with Exeter were both cancelled until the end of the present season, to be played off then...
With the postponement of the Torpedo Boat game, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine has an open week until Saturday's engagement with the King's Point Merchant Marine Base. The subs will take on the Army Base Officers (P.O.E.) at the same time on the Freshman diamond...
With a season's standing at only one victory against two losses, Coach Stahl will try to even up the count tomorrow when the Harvard nine plays its third home game in a row. Invading will be another naval squad, this one from the Motor Torpedo Boat Service Training Center...
...suicidal. Last week the Navy confirmed reports that the Japs were building a special Kamikaze plane, with a cockpit into which the pilot is locked before the takeoff. The plane (reportedly in production in Manchuria) is a pusher type, engine and propeller at the rear of the fuselage. Its torpedo-like nose carries a long ton (2,240 Ibs.) of explosive, fused to let go upon impact of nose or wings...